New Scanner Photo - 260 Z

While Nancy and I were in Reno earlier this week, we saw a Porsche Cayman on display at the Atlantis casino. We both liked the looks - a classy black paint job with black leather interior - and the price actually was not too bad considering the options. We did wonder how we would get in and out of a car such as the Cayman, seeing how low to the ground it is and the contortions you would have to make just to get behind the wheel each time. At our age we are more four door sedan types, but the Cayman got me reminiscing about a time that I owned a sports car - a Datsun 260 Z. Yes, they called them Datsun's back in the day, not Nissan's.

The 260 was arguably the worst of the "Z" cars and mine was of the lemon variety. I bought it used, after it came off of a lease, and it never did run all that well. The fuel/air mixture was problematic and it hesitated when you tried to accelerate off the line. It was an intermittent problem, but one that was never totally corrected by several of the local Datsun dealers. I added a "quad" eight track stereo and it didn't work very well either. The "quad" sound wouldn't deliver the goods and one of the four channels always seemed to falter. It was sort of quasi surround sound. Like I said... the car was a lemon.

I bought a scanner while I was in Reno, from Comp USA (an Epson V100), and I decided to hook it up tonight and try my first scan. The picture, of my Z car, a 1975 model, is not of the best quality - but it's the only picture that I saved of the car. I only kept the car for a year. The picture was taken in front of the first house I ever owned and neither I, nor my neighbors, had enough money left over to landscape our lawns after our home purchase. Of course, we still had enough money left to spend on our vehicles. You have to maintain some priorities in life - right? I've posted the Z car picture to the blog. The V100 did a good job and I know I'll be pleased with how easy it is to use. I'll be using the scanner for some other pictures that I intend to post i.e. a few black and white photos of Louisville, Kentucky. I'll probably also use it to post some magazine pictures and the like.

The picture of my 260 Z is at the bottom of the blog page.